HAZLITT, Cecil Jack
Service Numbers: | 85A, 85 |
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Enlisted: | 16 February 1915, 2 years senior cadets |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 4th Divisional Signal Company |
Born: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia , 1897 |
Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Haileybury College |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Old age, New South Wales, 15 June 1993 |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Brunswick Juntion Memorial Hall Honour Roll, Haileybury College HB |
World War 1 Service
16 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 85A, 28th Infantry Battalion, 2 years senior cadets | |
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29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 85, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 85, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
29 Jan 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
29 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
18 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 4th Divisional Signal Company | |
12 Apr 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 85A, 4th Divisional Signal Company, Returned for family reasons |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From AWM
Jack Hazlitt put his age up to enlist in 1915 and arrived in Gallipoli as a signaler with the 28th Battalion. He went to France in 1916 and joined the Signals Company of the 4th Division. He was severally shell shocked on a signal assignment and repatriated back to Australia in 1917. Jack was trained as a pilot but later failed to pass a health test. He was one of the first employees of Qantas Airways in Queensland as a ground engineer and worked in the same capacity for the Australian Arial Service in New South Wales.
What a life! (sic Evan Evans)